Demitre's Dessert

This is a very popular dessert chain around Toronto. After Nak Won korean food we headed up to Mississauga for some sweets at Demitre's. We went to the one in 90 Courtney Park, next to the AMC.
There was a big line up even though it was already 10:30, 1hr away from their closing time.

We waited eagerly for a seat while watching them cut the different cheesecakes, and popping out waffles with a mountain of ice cream on them, giant waffle cones and super delicious looking sundaes and shakes. The fudge cake was literally 30cms tall.....it was one gianormous beauty.

Deciding on what to order was hard..Diza and I debated between Banana Split, cake or crepes, and finally we settled on the crepe just like our other friends. The crepes are all $9.95, you can upgrade it to a Belgian waffle for extra 85 cents.

Karen and Brian had the One Bad Apple, which was crepe with white chocolate ice cream, spiced Apples with cinnamon and caramel drizzle. I'm a big apple fan so I thought theirs had great flavours blending together. The ice cream was very, very sweet though, it gets heavy after a couple more bites. But the apples and the cinnamon went very nicely with the crepes.

Hamid, being a chocolate fiend, ordered the one with the MOST chocolate in it. I don't remember the name, but it was bittersweet chocolate ice cream with brownie bits, dark and white chocolate bits. He loved it and inhaled that thing in about 20 seconds. Then he got too full and left it up to me.....as usual.... I liked the chocolatey-ness of it, but the chips kept on getting stuck in my teeth, which was annoying. Perhaps there was just too much chocolate stuff in there with no variance in texture, so it got very sweet and overwhelming quickly.
Diza and I shared The Last Straw, with fresh strawberries and honey vanilla ice cream and strawberry sauce drizzle. The strawberries were very fresh and sweet, so pairing them with the ice cream was just heavenly. The ice cream was not as sweet as the others, but you can definitly taste the honey. The texture is stickier and milkier than the usual ice cream you'd buy from grocery stores. Diza didn't even breathe. By teh time I took my second bite, she already killed off half of the crepe, mumbling "this is so amazing...omg...so good.." with her eyes bulging out as if she wished she had a second mouth to stuff this goodness in.

Overall, Demitre's a tasty place. THe desserts are certainly over priced, but I guess their justification is the monstrous size of them all. I'd say sharing a plate with a friend serves as good portion and budget control.

Dufflet Pastries

Dufflet Patries is one of the more famous dessert places in Toronto with several locations (details at www.dufflet.com). I went to the one on 787 Queen St. after my Terroni's meal. It's a small shop with 3 little tables and a high table along the window. However, they had a big selection of cakes and pastries that left me drooling in indecisiveness for quite awhile. Finally my friend and I decided to go with The Mixed Fruit Pie. It had blueberry, Apple, Rhubarb and maybe some other fruits in it and I really liked it. It wasn't overly sweet, and there was tinge of sourness from the berries and rhubarb that I liked. But my friends weren't feeling the sourness too much and vouched for the Chocolate Mousse cake. The chocolate was really smooth and not overly sugary, which went very nicely with our coffees and cappucino. They only cut one cheese cake at a time. I can't remember exactly what the name of it was, but it definitely wasn't too creamy and very smooth, one of the better cheesecakes I've had around the downtown area. The pieces weren't expensive, around $3.75 a slice. If it wasn't so far from where I live I'd probably be indulging in this guilty pleasure a lot more frequently....